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on September 15, 1980Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation of New Orleans recently took delivery of the Gulf Fleet No. 41, a towing/supply vessel measuring 190 feet by 40 feet by 14 feet. The No. 41 is Gulf Fleet's 101st vessel, and the seventh delivered this year. Built in Houma, La. by Quality Shipyards, Inc. a Gulf
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on September 15, 1980The Dixie Dredge Corporation of St. Louis, a subsidiary of Pott Industries' St. Louis Ship Division, Houston Natural Gas Corporation, recently affirmed the shipment of the first of five dredge tender boats, two crewboats, and the second of five dredges to the Egyptian Dredging Company of Ca
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on September 15, 1980The headquarters office of Hongkong United D o c k y a r d s Ltd. (HUD) recently moved to Tsing Yi Island, where its new yard is now in full operation and where plans for the second phase of expansion have been made. The recent drydocking of the passenger/cargo vessel Shanghai, owned by Xin
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on September 15, 1980A Toronto company is prepared to start a roll-on roll-off, translake ferry service if the scheme receives approvals from U.S. regulatory bodies. Sherwood Marine Inc. has been developing plans for a truck/ trailer ferry run across Lake Ontario for some time, and has set up a subsidiary, Ro-R
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on September 15, 1980Armco recently restructured its Western Steel Division into three operating divisions — Southwestern Steel, Midwestern Steel, and Manufactured Products. The reorganization is a further step in Armco's strategy to establish autonomous business units. Southwestern Steel Division is headquarte
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on September 15, 1980A barge operator in Argentina is among the first customers for a new radio-controlled, emergency anchor windlass system that has been designed, developed, and is now being manufactured by SSI, Inc., an associate company of TBW Industries of Houma, La. The new system, now being installed on ba
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on September 15, 1980A crowd of several thousand watched the recent christening of the USS Cape Cod (AD-43) at the San Diego yard of National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. She was the third Gompers Class destroyer tender to slide down the ways at NASSCO during the past 18 months. A fourth, (AD-44), is scheduled
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on September 15, 1980Frank Shepherd has been promoted to the position of director, project engineering and systems analysis, and Dr. Pramud Rawat has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as director, special projects. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is
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on September 15, 1980Mid-Coast Marine, Inc. of Coos Bay, Oregon, recently delivered the second 94-foot trawler Centurion to Continental Marine. She is designed to participate in the North Pacific trawl fishing industry, with capabilities of switching quickly from bottom trawling to mid-water trawling. The vessel i
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on September 1980Government and industry will join forces on October 1 to create an oil spill on the waters of Florida's Cypress Gardens tourist attraction. That's the "bad" news. The good news is that they will clean it right up. This dramatic exercise in coping with hazardous spills is to be part of the 7 th
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on September 1980The American Society of Naval Engineers announces the publication of the Naval Engineers Journal Cumulative Index. The Index provides a comprehensive guide to nearly a century of technological information contained in 397 issues of the Journal (1889 through 1979). Anyone in naval, maritime,
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on September 1980An international effort has produced a luxurious new tour boat for 30,000 Island Cruise Line of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. Designed by J.B. Hargrave, Naval Architects, Inc. of West Palm Beach, Fla., and built by Hike Metal Products Ltd. of Wheatley, Ontario, the new Island Queen V has a
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on September 1980President John F. Sullivan Jr. of Bath Iron Works has announced four key appointments in marketing to accomplish the shipyard's new-business objectives in naval and merchant ship construction and overhauls. Richard W. Thorpe Jr. was promoted to assistant to the vice president-marketing; Gordo
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on September 1980Campbell Industries of San Diego recently launched another tuna superseiner in its current series. The 1,200-ton-capacity Coopeatun II was built for Cooperativa de Pescadores del Pacifico, R.L. of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, and will be skippered by longtime tunafishing veteran Tim Tafova. True t
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on September 1980The first 133-foot catamaran tug (Catug) built by Halter Marine, Inc. was launched recently at the company's Chickasaw, Ala., division. Scheduled for delivery in November, the giant twin-hulled craft will sail to Sparrows Point, Md., where she will be mated to a 645-foot oceangoing barge bei
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on September 1980Schottel of America, Inc. has announced the signing of two contracts with A s t i l l e r o s Unidos, S.A. of Mexico City (the government- owned shipbuilding group), for the design of six 22-meter Schottel Tractor Tugs, as well as the supply of the complete propulsion machinery p a c k a g e
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on September 1980Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) of Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered its fifth vessel for 1980, the 120-foot utility vessel Wanda Louise, built for Gerald P. Hebert Enterprises, Inc. of Lafayette, La. Mr. Hebert, a manufacturer of oilfield "down hole" equipment, gave special instruc
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on September 1980Levingston Shipbuilding Company recently christened the jackup drill rig Rio Colorado I and launched the $30-million vessel into the Sabine River at its Orange, Texas, shipyard. The rig will be owned and operated by Rio Colorado S.A., a joint venture between Bridas S.A.P.I.C. and Saipem S.p
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on September 1980Promet Private Limited shipyard in Singapore recently launched a maintenance/inspection vessel named NMS 401, reputed to be the first of its kind for use in the Arabian Gulf. The vessel's sponsor was Mrs. Pete Domaschk, wife of the general manager of National Marine Service of St. Louis, ow
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on September 1980pAccompanied by the blare of towboat horns, Mrs. Peggy Armstrong shattered a champagne bottle to christen the new motor vessel Volunteer State recently under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The twin-screw, 5,830-bhp towboat has now entered service moving commodities on the Lower Mississippi